Barnaby Nutt
Bradford Highpoint
The frankly unbelievable form of the Highpoint building in Bradford. It is jaw-droppingly awful, surrounded by abandoned businesses and litter, it's a building that even I, an avid appreciator of brutalism, and concrete structures more generally, can't defend.
High Point, Westgate, Bradford, 1972.
Yorkshire Building Society Headquarters (former).
By John Brunton & Partners.
From Jones the Planner's (as always) excellent summary of the city's architecture:
Highpoint, a beyond-Brutalist office block sitting atop the ridge. Owen Hatherley (approvingly I think) says it is ‘utterly freakish, the severed head of some Japanese giant robot clad in a West Riding stone aggregate, glaring out at the city through blood red windows, the strangest urban artifact in a city which does not lack for architectural interest’.
Bradford Highpoint
The frankly unbelievable form of the Highpoint building in Bradford. It is jaw-droppingly awful, surrounded by abandoned businesses and litter, it's a building that even I, an avid appreciator of brutalism, and concrete structures more generally, can't defend.
High Point, Westgate, Bradford, 1972.
Yorkshire Building Society Headquarters (former).
By John Brunton & Partners.
From Jones the Planner's (as always) excellent summary of the city's architecture:
Highpoint, a beyond-Brutalist office block sitting atop the ridge. Owen Hatherley (approvingly I think) says it is ‘utterly freakish, the severed head of some Japanese giant robot clad in a West Riding stone aggregate, glaring out at the city through blood red windows, the strangest urban artifact in a city which does not lack for architectural interest’.